Kyle Bass, who famously made a fortune shorting the subprime market before the housing market collapse, is worried that there's too much debt in the world. So what's he recommending now? He suggests owning productive assets like apartment buildings and oil wells, “anything that has a real asset that’s productive.”

Stock market ultra-bear Marc Faber says investors should brace for a major market drop ahead that will present a buying opportunity. Investor Jim Rogers says there already is opportunity from a falling market — in China.

The "Dogs of the Dow" is a popular passive investing strategy that says investors should simply buy the ten highest yielding stocks in the Dow at the start of each year. So how have this year's Dogs done so far? Not too shabby.

An interesting argument on why you shouldn't be scared to purchase individual junk bonds, something most advisers would suggest is too risky for retail investors.

Your attitude toward the stock market in October, and whether or not you decide that it’s time to take money off the table, is dependent at least in part on who you think will win the upcoming election.

Wal-Mart is in many ways the "deflation retailer" which outperforms when money is afraid of a deflation pulse and volatility is increasing. Right now, the Wal-Mart indicator is telling bulls to be careful.

The platinum/gold ratio is showing there continues to be deep concerns about the economy.

Mark Hulbert on why the path the market takes between now and Halloween is likely to be a particularly volatile one.

High-frequency trading firms, long resistant to tighter oversight of their businesses, are beginning to change their tune amid a spate of high-profile technology failures that have roiled financial markets.

The risks of a big sell-off are higher now that we're in the fourth quarter. Selectivity in buying stocks will be more important than ever.

Bernanke's QE3 may have provided a bit of a lift for stocks last month, but action in the U.S. funds market shows a lot of skepticism. In the week ended Sept. 26, the second full week after the announcement of QE3, retail investors pulled $5.1-billion (U.S.) from domestic equity funds.

ETFs

Charles Schwab last month stunned Wall Street by slashing expenses on its ETFs to as low as 0.04 per cent. But there's more to the move than meets the eye. Schwab is spearheading the radical idea of a loss leader ETF, to get clients in the door to spend their cash on more profitable services.

What caught Wall Street's eye in Facebook's new advertisement this week? A phone.

An examination of whether Facebook hitting 1 billion users is a good thing or a bad thing for investors.

David Einhorn is shorting Chipotle on the basis that Taco Bell and its new Cantina Bell menu is going to lure away customers. Felx Salmon of Reuters put that theory to the taste test, and begs to differ.

COMMODITIES

The market is pricing in a rally in natural gas prices in December and January, based on the futures curve.

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